I’m just doubting their motives, I’m not judging.

Piracy is great and so is preservation. It’s just very unlikely that OP is doing actual preservation (remember that they talk about top gear and not some underground music album or something)

Yeah, obviously that’s the actual reason.

Of course the streaming service rotate their content. That’s kinda the entire point.

Preservation is important but an amateur that puts a movie on their Plex/jellyfin server isn’t important.

Assuming the media actually wasn’t available (of course top gear is available) on the trackers they use, sonarr wouldn’t help. Sonarr still needs to look through trackers/indexers, it just might do it faster.

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If it’s for preservation they should probably look into tape or optical storage. Realistically your friend is not doing it for preservation considering that there are way better equipped individuals and organisations for that (the BBC for example).

I really don’t get why people have started to say that they only do it for preservation like they run a museum or an archive. Come on man, that movie is available literally everything and your hard drive will fuck up the storage of the files long before humanity losses access to that movie.

I download movies because I like free movies.

Yeah, Eriksson too. Both pretty much abandoned their consumer phone business. They have pivoted to afaik mostly telecommunications infrastructure. But both companies do a bunch of other stuff.

Nokia and Eriksson were really happy when Huawei started being kicked out of 5G infrastructure.